Yesterday, I learned new and important definitions for words that I thought I already knew:
- wag:
- ‘Any one ludicrously mischievous; a merry droll’ (J.); a habitual joker. (In early use often combined with sense 1.) Phrase, to play the wag.
- slag:
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slang. a. A worthless or insignificant person (freq. used as a term of contempt): spec. (a) a coward; (b) a rough or brutal person; (c) any objectionable or contemptible person; (d) a vagrant or a petty criminal; also, such persons collectively; (e) (the most usual sense) a prostitute or promiscuous woman; a slattern.
(I understand that this definition will not be new to most English speakers from the other side of the pond.)
My rhyming poetry with lines ending in ‘ag’ will never be the same again.